I Always Said Yes: The Many Lives of Wakefield Poole

June. 09,2013

Rating：

7.5

Genre：

Documentary

Keywords：

Lgbt Pornography

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I Always Said Yes is a portrait of pioneering filmmaker Wakefield Poole, whose careers as dancer, choreographer, and director spanned the golden years of Broadway, television, porno chic, and gay liberation.

Wakefield Poole as Self

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Reviews

Cubussoli

2013/06/09

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

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SnoReptilePlenty

2013/06/10

Memorable, crazy movie

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Fatma Suarez

2013/06/11

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

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Zandra

2013/06/12

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

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Michael_Elliott

2013/06/13

I Always Said Yes: The Many Lives of Wakefield Poole (2013) *** 1/2 (out of 4) Wakefield Poole isn't a name that a lot of people are going to know but his film BOYS IN THE SAND did for gay porn what DEEP THROAT would do for bringing porn to the mainstream. This documentary from director Jim Tushinski covers just about every aspect to Poole's life and best of all is that we get the man himself discussing his life and career.Going into this documentary I had never seen a film from Poole so I was curious to hear more about the filmmaker and there's quite a bit of great stuff here. Poole starts off talking about his childhood, his love of movies and of course how he decided to leave home and try for something better. From here we get some great stories about his time on stage and then of course comes the discussion of the movies. BOYS IN THE SAND, BIJOU and BIBLE! are his three most famous films and we get some great stories about their production as well as the aftermath, which included some stories with Harvey Milk, the political maverick who of course would be assassinated.If you're a fan of Poole then you'll probably already know a lot of the stories that are told here but there's no question that if you're not familiar with his work then this a great place to get a better understanding of who he was and why his films were so important. We get clips from several of his movies but the film stays well within a R-rating so people don't have to be worried about any hardcore scenes (although, I'm not sure why people would object to them in a film about a man who made hardcore pictures). I really loved the interviews with Poole who is obviously still quite emotional about certain aspects of his life and career.

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